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From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on International Ethnic Conflict. Jack David Eller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 368 pp.
The persistence of the ties of ethnicity has belied the prediction of a planet rushing headlong into homogeneity and sameness. As many scholars remind us these days, it is obvious that globalization has not meant the disappearance of cultural and ethnic diversity, and to the contrary can sometimes intensify or even create it.
From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict examines the role of ethnicity in the contemporary world. By way of explaining the rationale for the project, Jack David Eller writes that his teaching had led him to see the need for a book that would draw together a series of "short yet in-depth case studies" (p. xi), which would offer the...